For health officials in Louisiana, the best advice about sex is forget about condoms for promiscuous teens. The answer in the Bayou is abstinence only.
Instead of pushing safe sex, state health officials use federal tax dollars to push their "just say no" approach to sex ed, and until recently they even funded programs that said yes to God, yes to anti-abortion prayer vigils, yes to religious skits in public schools, and yes to bibles for would-be sinners.
Now, a federal judge, citing the separation of church and state, has just said "NO" ordering the state to stop spending public money to advance religion as a way to curb earthly desire. A new challenge to the abstinence movement: sex, the Constitution, and the public coffer.
